🧵 Se non riuscite a orientarvi nella telenovela in cui si è trasformata la politica estera mondiale, qui c'è tutto ciò che bisogna sapere sulle telefonate del "falso mediatore" americano in preparazione del falso "piano di pace" di Putin e Trump: 👇 1/12

Deadline expires soon! Apply and share! @healtheconall.bsky.social @eshconference.bsky.social #healtheconomics #econsky

Save the date! Fantastic VERB-IHEA seminar, Dec. 1, Sebastian Tello @sebastiantt.bsky.social @healtheconall.bsky.social #healtheconoics #econsky

Next VERB seminar. Add it to your calendar! healtheconomics.org/event/do-vap... #healtheconomics #econsky

Next VERB seminar. Add it to your calendar! healtheconomics.org/event/do-vap... #healtheconomics #econsky

I'd love to help make BlueSky one of the places where young scholars introduce themselves and their work to the world. If you're a PhD student whose work at least partially focuses on economics of education or education policy, reply to this thread and I'll highlight your work.

Registration is open for the Fifth Ireland Masterclass in Health Economics, which will be held March 18-20, 2026 in Galway at @uniofgalway.bsky.social. To register, email Ciaran O'Neill at [email protected] More info here: www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...

📢🚨 #HERB2026 is on 🚨📢 Interested in health and risky behaviors? Submit your paper to this conference Davide, Paolo, and I have been organizing this conference for 4 years now, and every time I love it. Good people, good food, nice discussions. The papers are not too bad either 😜

𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 – 𝐈𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐢𝐬𝐤𝐲 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐬 (HERB 2026) 📍 𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐚, January 22–23, 2026 🗓 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: November 30, 2025 🔗 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 here: eventi.unibo.it/workshop-herb #healtheconomics @healtheconomics.bsky.social #econsky

Hedgehog of the day. Mints removed. Next, please!

"Mussolini himself probably did not know what he was going to do—except stay in power. A parliamentary majority backed the fascist govt at the beginning, & most of the people thought fascism was a temporary interlude... thought Italy could later return to freedom" www.historians.org/resource/the...

🧵 It sounds like Mao’s China, but it’s the United States of America. From now on, research funding will be screened by government-appointed political commissioners, tasked with assessing whether projects advance the “president’s policy priorities” and align with “American values.” #EconSky 1/9

📢🧵 New paper! #EconTwitter How does intensive social media use affect puberty timing and risky behaviours in adolescence? 📄 Riskonnected: Social Media, Puberty and Risky Behaviours in Adolescence with Margherita Agnoletto and Silvia Mendolia #ChildDevelopment #DigitalWellbeing

Today, I encountered yet another instance where a scholar, influenced by a targeted harassment campaign on social media, formed a misrepresented view of my research after reading certain posts and working papers. How much longer will I have to endure this? 1/2

La proposta di Meloni di istituire un fondo europeo per sussidiare le imprese esposte ai dazi è sbagliata e dannosa. Ho provato a spiegarlo nel nuovo post sul mio blog - nonché nuovo episodio del mio podcast. 👇 fabiosabatini.substack.com/p/lautolesio...

Me gustaría escribir en castellano un breve hilo sobre una vivencia negativa de los últimos meses. En marzo del 2024 publiqué un artículo que encontraba que la prohibición de la compra de la prostitución en Suecia aumentaba las violaciones de entre el 40 y el 60% 1/N

The academic community must stand against misinformation and protect researchers from being unjustly targeted. N/N #AcademicIntegrity #AcademicSky #EconSky

A short thread on the main findings might be found here: bsky.app/profile/ricc...

JOB AD: @fbk-irvapp.bsky.social in #Trento (Italy) is looking for a #Researcher in Quantitative Public #Policy Evaluation to conduct (quasi)experimental evaluation research across different policy areas. 2Y+ contract - apply by 18/08 - Please, REPOST #EconSky LINK: jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Offe...

The thread below further illustrates the original decision made by the scientific committee — a decision that was only overturned following a social media harassment campaign, setting a troubling precedent that such campaigns can pressure 1/2

I hope someone at @springernature.com still values #ScientificIntegrity enough to uphold the original decision of the impartial scientific committee—rather than capitulating to the biased outcome driven by a 16-month social media harassment campaign. #EconSky

This is the core issue highlighted by this event: If you are a senior professor and dislike an article's findings or a scientific committee's decision, you can overrule them—even forcing a retraction—through a harassment campaign on social media.This seems possible with @springernature.com journals

It’s been almost a month since the unjust retraction was forced through—a decision not made by the scientific committee, but pushed by those who waged a 16-month online harassment campaign against my work. 1/3

I feel overwhelmed and trapped in a David vs. Goliath battle, fighting simply to restore the original, unbiased outcome determined by the scientific committee. The system failed; truth and due process lost to mob tactics. Any advice on how to confront this? Solidarity and suggestions welcome. 2/3

It is deeply disheartening to witness a campaign that, from the outset, sought to retract my work simply because it disagreed with the findings. Rather than engaging in a constructive debate (advancing the literature), critics seized on issues with the replication code as a pretext to justify 1/3

We contributes to the economics of: ➡️Sexual behavior ➡️Human capital ➡️Gender ➡️Labor ➡️Fertility 📄: @https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/18002/an-economic-theory-of-sexual-exchanges-and-human-capital Feedback welcome! @scottcunningham.bsky.social @draliceevans.bsky.social

🧠 We contribute a unified rational choice framework that: 🔬Encompasses paid sex and marriage 🔬Explains segregation in sex markets 🔬Models sexual activity and fertility as time allocations 🔬Endogenizes gendered outcomes via norms and human capital

📉 Our model explains the decline in unpaid sex and fertility: As digital sex (porn, platforms, AI) lowers the cost of paid sex, people reallocate time away from intimacy.... 👉 Less unpaid sex 👉 Lower fertility 👉 More demand for paid sex

📢📢📢 Why are sex markets gendered? Why is sexual activity declining even as norms liberalize? Finally a general economic theory that unifies paid sex and marriage. 👉 An Economic Theory of Sexual Exchanges and Human Capital #gender #humancapital #fertility @davidedragone.bsky.social and Elias Carroni

Tinder’s introduction + sharply & persistently increased sexual activity with no impact on relationship formation + increased inequality in dating outcomes among male but not female students + increased sexual assaults & STDs + improved female students' mental health papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Two puzzles: 1- ̲𝙿̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚒̲̲𝚍̲ ̲𝚜̲̲𝚎̲̲𝚡̲ ̲𝚖̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚛̲̲𝚔̲̲𝚎̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚜̲: Why are men buyers and women sellers? 2- Why are ̲𝚜̲̲𝚎̲̲𝚡̲̲𝚞̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚕̲ ̲𝚊̲̲𝚌̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚒̲̲𝚟̲̲𝚒̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚢̲ ̲𝚊̲̲𝚗̲̲𝚍̲ ̲𝚏̲̲𝚎̲̲𝚛̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚒̲̲𝚕̲̲𝚒̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚢̲ declining? For a possible answer, check our new wp "𝐀𝐧 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐞𝐱𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬", with @mardelgiu.bsky.social , E. Carroni Link ⬇️ Please retweet 😜 #healtheconomics #econsky

*Chronicle of an Ideological Harassment Campaign Foretold* This short thread outlines how a harassment campaign overruled a scientific decision made by scholars in a @springernature.com journal. In March 2024, two Swedish academics posted harassing tweets 1/N

If you have 1 minute, a RT or sending this thread to someone else would really help increase visibility. Even one share makes a difference. 🙏 1/4

The retraction of my article is based on false claims and should be withdrawn. @springernature.com We need transparency and fairness in research—not silence and intimidation. Thank you for your support. 🙌 #AcademicTwitter #ResearchIntegrity #StopBullyingInAcademia 4/4

The professor (later joined by another senior professor) posted accusations like “How did this pass peer review?” and “You’re hiding something!”— some of them were later deleted after other scholars highlighted they were disturbing. They demanded my code within hours via email, 3/N

A summary of events, my disagreement with the retraction, and why it should be withdrawn is here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/o1vp6.... Dealing with this has been tough, and the social media backlash I faced went beyond academic bounds #EconBluesky #Academia #Replication

15 months ago, I published a paper on Sweden’s ban of prostitution purchases, finding a 45-60% increase in rape. Despite the sensitivity of the topic, I believe scholarly debate is essential. A senior professor immediately launched a public attack on my credibility due to the findings 2/N

I conduct research in good faith and I feel obliged to report a harassment, character assassination and stalking campaign that has lasted over a year, of which I have been a target. This campaign has been disproportionate and damaging. 1/N

1/ My article "Mental Health and Mortality Trends in the United States" has just been published by the Journal of Health Economics. You can access it for free (for a while) using the link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lCV0c7LGG... This is a revised & renamed version of NBER Working paper no. 32978.

Thank you to IHEA for joining with the health economics journal editorial boards in defending academic freedom and editorial independence. The IHEA May Newsletter has both their endorsement and our original statement: healtheconomics.org/wp-content/u...

Please repost. #healtheconomics #econsky @healtheconall.bsky.social

The editorial boards of seven leading health econ journals are taking a stand today against political influence and ideological attacks on peer review and academia. No matter what you study we want to see your scholarship and will NEVER collaborate with suppression. Please repost.

The Manchester Centre for Health Economics has three new Research Associate positions in Health Economics (£37,174 - £41,671 p/a). These are 24-month fixed-term contracts from July 2025 to June 2027. For full details and to apply, visit www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

𝐊𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐤𝐦𝐚𝐧 presents “𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐢𝐭𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬" 𝐢𝐇𝐄𝐀 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐁 𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫: 𝐌𝐚𝐲 5 𝐚𝐭 3:30 𝐩𝐦 𝐔𝐓𝐂 zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/8344122469... Meeting ID: 834 4122 4695 Passcode: 716775 #healtheconomics #econsky

The Editors of Health Economics are pleased to announce that we will now accept submissions for literature reviews that synthesize recent research on topics of broad interest to health economists. #HEcReviews More information at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1099...

We're launching a new article type at Health Economics - literature reviews. These should be in the style of JEL papers or Handbook chapters, not "Systematic Reviews" common in the clinical literature. We're excited to provide this new resource for our fast-moving field! See 👇

𝐊𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐤𝐦𝐚𝐧 presents “𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐢𝐭𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬" 𝐢𝐇𝐄𝐀 𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐁 𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫: 𝐌𝐚𝐲 5 𝐚𝐭 3:30 𝐩𝐦 𝐔𝐓𝐂 zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/8344122469... Meeting ID: 834 4122 4695 Passcode: 716775 #healtheconomics #econsky

A very nice Liberation Day at Monte Sole. Buon 25 aprile!

Today is #LiberationDay in Italy, the most important national holiday. On this day 80 years ago we were finally freed from Nazi occupation and the Fascist regime. I will never understand those who do not celebrate this date. Here are two pics from the liberation of Modena, my hometown.

Buon #25Aprile